SEVERAL months ago I w as surprised to see Arnold Zwicky, a linguist, use a comma splice. A few commenters took me to task for being over-picky. The question came up again in the comments several days ...

Does this sentence read OK to you? It's the way I'm wired, I'm not about to change. If you said no, you're right. It's a kind of run-on sentence or "run-together sentence." It's an example of a comma ...

An error known as a comma splice (or comma fault) results when a comma is mistakenly placed between two independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating ...

As part of my job, I read the written work of lots of different people of different ages. I notice that many of them use comma splices, and it makes their writing difficult to read. The more I read ...

Braveheart did it, Adele does it. While I did it then, splicing two sentences into one, snubbing the semicolon to mash two time-zones, my heresy enacted by that intermediary comma. Grammarians know ...